A novel local structure descriptor (LSD) for color image retrieval is proposed in this paper. Local structures are defined based on a similarity of edge orientation, and LSD is constructed using the underlying colors in local structures with similar edge direction. LSD can effectively combine color, texture and shape as a whole for image retrieval. LSH integrates the advantages of both statisti...

Gender recognition from facial images plays an important role in biometric applications. Employing Dyadic wavelet Transform (DyWT) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP), we propose a new feature descriptor DyWT-LBP for gender recognition. DyWT is a multi-scale image transformation technique that decomposes an image into a number of sub-bands which separate the features at different scales. DyWT is a k...

Encoding an object essence in terms of self-similarities between its parts is becoming a popular strategy in Computer Vision. In this paper, a new similarity-based descriptor, dubbed Structural Similarity Cross-Covariance Tensor is proposed, aimed to encode relations among different regions of an image in terms of cross-covariance matrices. The latter are calculated between low-level feature ve...

With the rapid development of fast data acquisition techniques, 3D scans that record the geometric and photometric information of deformable objects are routinely acquired nowadays. To track surfaces in temporal domain or stitch partially-overlapping scans to form a complete model in spatial domain, robust and efficient feature detection for deformable shape correspondences, as an enabling meth...

In this paper we introduce the concept of local label descriptor, which is a concatenation of label histograms for each cell in a patch. Local label descriptors alleviate the label patch misalignment issue in combining structured label predictions for semantic image labeling. Given an input image, we solve for a label map whose local label descriptors can be approximated as a sparse convex comb...